By Marijane Osborn
ISBN-10: 0806134038
ISBN-13: 9780806134031
Marijane Osborn demonstrates that Chaucer established the Canterbury stories after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping equipment. Chaucer’s fascination with this machine additionally debts for the experience of time and astronomy within the Tales.
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Though hls discussion is a little hard to follow, North seems to place Alpheraz's position then at 351~longitude (Universe z75), that is, in the twenty-first degree . 4. The Constellation Pegasus (Diirer, with Alpheraz circled). of Pisces. This location agrees with Skeat's table 2 (xxxix-xli), which he derived from the same manuscript that "has also hnished us with the Latin version of Messahalla" (Skeat, Tredtisexxxvii); a century before Chaucer, that table situated ''Alferaz" at Pisces 20". The star is marked "Alfraz" on the earliest astrolabe, ca.
6. 6. Aries, Taurus, and the Pleiades. From Diirer's Map of the Sky (1515). These constellations along the ediptic are not the same as the signs of the zodac. When someone, probably a Babylonian (Tester 15). ~4Today, however, due to a long wobble of the earth's axis, the constellation Aries has drifted eastward to lie almost entirely within the space long ago occupied by Pisces, the constellation Taurus having been moved into Aries' space, and so forth. The vernal equinox, that ram's horn "V" on our charts marking the beginning of the agricultural year at the point where the ecliptic circle crosses the celestial equator, is not so securely fixed against the stars as the ancients supposed.
NYet to argue that the new mode of calculation is "more correct" than the old one makes about as much sense as Gulliver's Lilliputians fighting over which end of a soft-boiled egg should be opened at breakfast. "The final note to Part I contains a brief explanation of the hfference between ecliptic and equatorial celestial coordinates. The names of the ancient divisions of the ecliptic made the zodiac also adaptable to the non-astronomical uses of astrology, the evocative animal names addmg allegorical and emotive meaning to the sipficance of the signs.
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